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Captain Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend KCH (11 September 1785 – 28 June 1842), was a British naval commander and Tory politician. Townshend was the younger son of George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, by his second wife Anne, daughter of Sir William Montgomery, 1st Baronet.
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Captain Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernardo Townshend KCH (11 September 1785 – 28 June 1842), was a British naval commander and Tory politician.
- Early Life
- Secretary of State and Other Posts
- "Turnip" Townshend
- Family
- Further Reading
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Townshend was the eldest son of Sir Horatio Townshend, 3rd Baronet, who was created Baron Townshend in 1661 and Viscount Townshend in 1682. The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend (d. 1493) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas...
After his recall to England, he was busily occupied in attacking the proceedings of the new Tory ministry. Townshend quickly won the favour of George I, and in September 1714, the new king selected him as Secretary of State for the Northern Department. The policy of Townshend and his colleagues, after they had crushed the Jacobite rising of 1715, b...
His remaining years were passed at Raynham, where he interested himself in agriculture. He promoted the adoption of the Norfolk four-course system, involving the rotation of turnips, barley, clover, and wheat crops. He was an enthusiastic advocate of growing turnips as a field crop for livestock feed. As a result of his promotion of turnip-growing ...
Townshend was twice married—first to the Hon. Elizabeth Pelham (1681–1711), daughter of Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton and his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Jones of Ramsbury Manor, Attorney General for England and Wales. Children with the Hon. Elizabeth Pelham: 1. Hon. Elizabeth Townshend (d. 1 December 1785) married C...
Black, Jeremy. "Fresh Light on the Fall of Townshend." Historical Journal29.1 (1986): 41–64.Black, Jeremy. "Additional Light on the Fall of Townshend." Yale University Library Gazette 63#3 (1989), pp. 132–136 onlineBlack, Jeremy. British foreign policy in the age of Walpole(1985).Cruickshanks, Eveline. "The Political Management of Sir Robert Walpole, 1720–42." in Jeremy Black, ed., Britain in the Age of WalpoleMacmillan Education UK, 1984. 23–43.Rigg, James McMullen (1899). "Townshend, Charles (1674–1738)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.Frey, Linda. "Townshend, Charles, second Viscount Townshend (1674–1738)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27617. (Subscription or...Dunthorne, Hugh (2015). Flanders and Holland in the Eighteenth Century (PDF).Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernaro Townshend; edit. Language Label Description Also known as; English: Lord James Townshend. British politician. Lord James Nugent Boyle Bernaro Townshend; Statements . instance of. human. 0 references. sex or gender ...
LORD JAMES TOWNSHEND. [ Post-Captain of 1809. Youngest son of George, the first Marquis Townshend, by his second lady, Anne, daughter’ of Sir William Montgomery, Bart. This officer was born Sept. 11, 1785; and he appears, by Mr. James’s account, to have been first Lieutenant of the Atlas 74, in Sir J. T. Duckworth’s action, off St ...
